Synchronicity

This podcast examines the significant underrepresentation of women, particularly Black heterosexual women, in HIV prevention and PrEP utilization.

Culturally informed care is vital for linking diverse women to treatment, prevention, and testing services for HIV, syphilis, and hepatitis C (HCV). Untreated STIs pose serious health risks for women which can lead to long-term complications. Despite ongoing national calls to expand prevention and treatment, syphilis rates have increased 6.8% amongst women ages 15-44 from 2022-2023.

As interest in long‑acting injectable (LAI) HIV treatment and PrEP continues to grow, many healthcare sites face real‑world challenges translating enthusiasm into sustainable programs. This peer‑to‑peer panel focuses on the practical “how” of LAI implementation, featuring external experts with hands‑on experience navigating operational workflows, site‑level decision‑making, and reimbursement considerations across medical benefit (buy‑and‑bill) and pharmacy benefit models.

Black Health’s Health Equity Summit Event is a student-led event held at Lehman College in collaboration with the City University of New York (CUNY) institutions (Lehman and Hostos Community Colleges). The summit centers around Black Health’s three pillars – education, policy and advocacy – addressing topics ranging from HIV/AIDS, mental health, diabetes, and other health disparities that disproportionately affect Black and Brown Communities.

In New York, avoidable emergency department (ED) visits—non-emergent care that could be managed in primary care—remain common, with an estimated 40% of ED visits classified as avoidable in 2024. These visits contribute to ED overcrowding, higher costs, workforce strain, and longer wait times that can worsen outcomes for time-sensitive conditions. Barriers to timely primary care, which vary by insurance type, may drive these patterns of avoidable ED use. In this study, we examined the association between insurance type and avoidable ED visits in New York, hypothesizing that such visits are more common among patients with public insurance or who are uninsured than among those with private coverage.

During this special sessions, attendees will: Build awareness of excess visceral abdominal fat (EVAF) and how it differs from general weight gain in people with HIV (PWH); Understand how EVAF affects physical health, emotional well-being, and quality of life; Explore tools and resources available to support PWH in managing EVAF; and Discover the therapeutic role of EGRIFTA WR™ in addressing EVAF.

Join this interactive session to learn about the CDC-funded national initiative, the Capacity-Building Assistance Network (CPN). This session will feature presentations from several CPN HIV capacity-building providers who deliver specialized training and customized technical assistance to strengthen HIV prevention programs, organizations, and the workforce delivering these services.

Through a candid and forward-looking conversation, speakers will unpack how overlapping crises, such as inequity, mental health, housing instability, and climate, shape health outcomes and why whole-person, community-driven models are essential for the future. This session centers next-generation leadership, innovation, and actionable strategies to redesign health systems with equity at the core.

Informing partners about their risk of a sexually transmitted infection (STI) is important to reduce the risk of complications, onward transmission and reinfection; however, it is difficult to do especially if it is not in your native language.

This podcast episode seeks to share the experience and insights of a peer navigator working in Kitsap County, Washington, to link patients to necessary treatment while facing the interpersonal, psychosocial, and logistical barriers to care that impact these populations.

In 2022, the New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute introduced a social determinants of health screening tool in its reporting system to better understand social needs among patients served by its funded agencies and the services provided to address them. In this conversation between a program coordinator and an evaluation specialist at the AIDS Institute, listeners will learn how the assessment tool was implemented and how reported data describes the social determinants of health needs among cis-gender women who received care.